From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: removing the echo area Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 16:59:13 -0600 Organization: IHS Message-ID: References: <878xnzqsd7.fsf@tiger.rapttech.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1150326025 24089 80.91.229.2 (14 Jun 2006 23:00:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 23:00:25 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 15 01:00:23 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FqeLW-0000KQ-W1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 01:00:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FqeLW-0007aO-CR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 19:00:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FqeLJ-0007Z4-3c for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 19:00:09 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FqeLF-0007YY-Lo for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 19:00:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FqeLF-0007YV-BZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 19:00:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FqeUV-00054W-QI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 19:09:40 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FqeLC-0000HS-JE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 01:00:02 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.206 ([207.167.42.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 01:00:02 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.206 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 01:00:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.206 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) In-Reply-To: <878xnzqsd7.fsf@tiger.rapttech.com.au> X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:35478 Archived-At: Tim X wrote: > Kevin Rodgers writes: >> Do you mean you are running your program from Emacs via `M-x term'? >> That should set up the terminal so that your program can query the >> terminal configuration and display properly. > > I think the OPs problem is they are running it from a console rather > than under X. They may be running Emacs in a console, a terminal emulator, or under several window systems -- the OP didn't say. But regardless, shouldn't `M-x term /my/program RET' do the right thing? > One way around would be to configure the console to use a smaller font > so that you get more than the 25x80 you get with default font size. Of > course, how useful this is would depend on how large your monitor is. > Under Linux, this can be configured via LILO at boot time. Not sure > about other boot loaders like grub etc. -- Kevin